With Azerbaijan and Georgia, Armenia made up the Transcaucasian
Federation of Soviet Republics.
Stamps of Armenia were replaced in 1923 by those Transcaucasian
Federated Republics.
With the breakup of the Soviet Union on December 26, 1991, Armenia
and ten former Soviet republics established the Commonwealth of
independent States.

AZERBAIJAN

Location:

Southernmost part of Russia in Eastern Europe, bounded
by Georgia, Dagestan, Caspian sea, Persia and Armenia.

Government:

A Soviet Socialist Republic

Area:

32,686 sq. miles

Population:

2,096,973 in 1923

Capital:

Baku

BATUM

Location:

A Seaport on the Black sea

Government:

N/A

Area:

N/A

Population:

N/A

Capital:

N/A

Batum is the capitol of Adzhar, a territory which, in 1921,
became an autonomus republic of the Georgian Soviet Socialist
Republic.
Stamps of Batum were issued under the administration of British forces
which occupied Batum and environs between December, 1918, and July, 1920,
following the treaty of Versailles.

FAR EASTERN REPUBLIC

Location:

In Siberia east of lake Baikel

Government:

Republic

Area:

900,745 sq. miles

Population:

1,560,00 (in 1920)

Capital:

Chita

A short-lived independent government was established here
in 1920.

GEORGIA

Location:

In the southern part of Russia, bordering on the
Black sea and occupying the entire western part of Transcaucasia.

Government:

A Soviet Socialist Republic

Area:

25,760 sq. miles (in 1920)

Population:

2,372,403 (in 1920)

Capital:

Tbilisi (Tiflis)

Georgia was formerly a province of the Russian Empire
and later part of the Transcaucasian Federation of the Soviet Republics.
Stamps of Georgia were replaced in 1923 by those of Transcaucasian
Federated Republics.

SOUTH RUSSIA

Location:

An area in southern Russia bordering on the Caspian
and Black seas

Government:

N/A

Area:

N/A

Population:

N/A

Capital:

N/A

A provisional government set up and maintained by General
Denikin in opposition to the Bolshevik forces in Russia
following the downfall of the Empire.
The stamps were used in the field postal service established for
carrying on communication between the various armies united in the
revolt. These armies included the Don Cossacks, the Kuban Cossacks,
and also the neighboring southern Russian people in favor of the
counter-revolution against the Bolsheviks.

TANNU TUVA

Location:

Between the Sayan Mountains and the Tannu-Ola
mountains (today it includes all of the Tannu-Ola mountains,
including the southern face and some of the plains to the
south). It is basically the basin of the upper reaches of
the Yenisei River, which then cuts through the Sayan mountains
at the border of Tuva to drain north into the Arctic Ocean.

Government:

A former republic closely identified with Soviet
Russia in Asia

Area:

64,000 sq. miles

Population:

65,000 in 1927.
Today there are something like 300,000 inhabitants

Capital:

Kyzyl

The status of Tuva was settled by treaty between
the USSR and the newly independent Mongolia. Mongolia thought
Tuva was part of Mongolia (so did the Tuvans, actually), but Russia
wanted it otherwise --- and the price of Russian support against
China for Mongolian independence (without which an independent
Mongolia would never have survived) was that they give up their
claim to Tuva.
When Tuva was absorbed by the USSR, it became part
of the RSFSR. Thus later it became part of the Russian
Federation, of which it is one of the constituent
republics (the Republic of Tuva, or Tyva RepubliKa).
(with thanks to Alan Leighton)

TRANSCAUCASIAN
FEDERATED REPUBLIC
(Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan)

Location:

In southeastern Europe, south of the Caucasus
Mountains between the Black and Caspian sea

Government:

A former republic

Area:

71,255 sq. miles

Population:

5,851,00

Capital:

Tiflis

The Transcaucasian Federation was made up the
former autonomies of Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan.
Its stamps were replaced by those of Russia.

UKRAINE

Location:

In southern Europe, bordering the Black sea

Government:

Republic

Area:

170,998 sq. miles

Population:

51,940,426 (in 1992)

Capital:

Kiev

Following the collapse of the Russian Empire, a national assembly
met at Kiev and formed the Ukrainian National
republic. On July 6, 1923, the Ukraine joined
the Soviet Union and since that time the postage
stamps of the Soviet Union have been in use.
With the breakup of the Soviet Union on December 26, 1991,
Ukraine and ten former Soviet Republics established the Commonwealth
of Independent states.

WESTERN UKRAINE

Location:

In Eastern Central Europe

Government:

A former, short-lived independent state

Area:

N/A

Population:

N/A

Capital:

N/A

A provisional government was established in
1918 in the eastern part of Austria-Hungary but the area
later came under Polish administration.